Bathymetry Survey of Eclipse Shoals to Lombadina Point, Kimberley Region

A bathymetry survey of the Eclipse Shoals to Lombadina Point area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The data was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office onboard the MV Outer Limit between 12 September 2022 and 3 December 2022. It was processed into a 30-meter resolution GeoTIFF grid.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion and sediment transport based on detailed seafloor topography.
• Planning marine infrastructure projects based on bathymetric depth data.
• Studying benthic habitats and marine ecology based on the seafloor relief.
• Conducting oceanographic research based on the high-resolution bathymetric grid.

Strengths

• Data was acquired using a Kongsberg EM2040P MKII multibeam echosounder, suggesting high technical quality.
• The final product is a 30-meter resolution, 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF grid.
• Survey was conducted over a specific period from 12 September 2022 to 3 December 2022.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset explicitly states it is not to be used for navigational purposes, limiting its application scope.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data, collected for the Australian Hydrographic Office by Ocean Infinity.

Collection Method

Acquired via ship-based multibeam echosounder survey and processed with QPS Qimera software.

Time Range

12 September 2022 – 3 December 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:57:36.584622; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eclipse Shoals to Lombadina Point, Kimberley region, Western Australia.